HICKS EX REL. HICKS v. Mellis

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that an order can only be collaterally attacked in a separate action if the order was void ab initio due to the issuing court lacking jurisdiction to enter the order
• “A challenge to an order based on a trial court’s misapplication of a statute generally raises a question of court error, not a question of the court’s jurisdiction.”
• a failure to notify a party in interest that the trial court was reinstating an action under Code § 8.01-335(B) rendered the order voidable rather than void ab initio
• discussing void and voidable orders

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).